Aron Baron
Aron Baron | |
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אהרן באראן | |
Born | Aron Davydovych Baron July 1, 1891 |
Died | August 12, 1937 | (aged 46)
Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
Nationality | Ukrainian Jew |
Other names | Aron Polevoy Aron Faktorovich Aron Kantorovich |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1905-1921 |
Organization | Nabat |
Movement | Makhnovshchina |
Spouses | |
Children | Theodore, Voltairine |
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Aron Davydovych Baron (
Biography
Aron Davydovych Baron was born into a Ukrainian Jewish family.[1]
As a teenager, Baron became an anarchist and participated in the
By the summer of 1919, the Nabat had been forcibly dispersed by the Bolshevik government, which brought Baron and Volin to join the ranks of the Makhnovshchina, serving on its Cultural-Educational Commission[4] and on the Military Revolutionary Council.[5] At a Regional Congress, Baron spoke out against the Bolsheviks and declared the necessity to build a regime of free soviets, outside of party control.[6] But before long, Baron had started to clash with Nestor Makhno and Dmitry Popov over the leadership of the movement, with the latter even threatening to have him killed.[7] In September 1920, during an illegal conference of the Nabat in Kharkiv, Baron issued a resolution that was highly critical of the Makhnovshchina, declaring it "better to vanish into a Soviet prison than vegetate in that terrible atmosphere".[8]
In November 1920, the leaders of the Nabat were arrested by the Cheka in Kharkiv, as part of Bolshevik operation against the Makhnovshchina.[9] Aron and Fanya Baron were subsequently transferred to a prison in Moscow.[10] In February 1921, Aron was briefly freed from prison in order to attend the funeral of Peter Kropotkin.[11] In September 1921, Fanya was executed by the Cheka.[12] Aron Baron spent the following 17 years in either prison or exile, before he was arrested and executed during the Great Purge.[13]
References
- ^ Avrich 1971, pp. 215–216; Malet 1982, p. 172; Peters 1970, p. 94; Skirda 2004, p. 339.
- ^ a b Avrich 1971, p. 205.
- ^ Avrich 1971, p. 205; Skirda 2004, pp. 323–324.
- ^ Avrich 1971, pp. 215–216.
- ^ Peters 1970, pp. 104–105.
- ^ Skirda 2004, pp. 365–366.
- ^ Malet 1982, p. 162.
- ^ Malet 1982, pp. 162–163.
- ^ Avrich 1971, pp. 222–223; Skirda 2004, pp. 238–239.
- ^ Avrich 1971, pp. 222–223.
- ^ Avrich 1971, pp. 227–228.
- ^ Avrich 1971, pp. 232–233.
- ^ Avrich 1971, p. 245.
Bibliography
- OCLC 1154930946.
- Darch, Colin (2020). Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921. OCLC 1225942343.
- Malet, Michael (1982). Nestor Makhno in the Russian Civil War. London: Macmillan. OCLC 8514426.
- Patterson, Sean (2020). Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917–1921. OCLC 1134608930.
- Peters, Victor (1970). Nestor Makhno: The Life of an Anarchist. Winnipeg: Echo Books. OCLC 7925080.
- Skirda, Alexandre (2004). Nestor Makhno–Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917–1921. Translated by Sharkey, Paul. Oakland, CA: AK Press. OCLC 60602979.
Further reading
- Smele, Jonathan D. (2015). "Baron, Fania". Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-4422-5281-3.
External links
- Heath, Nick (December 2, 2010). "Baron, Aron Davidovich (aka Kantorovich, Faktorovich, Poleyevoy) 1891-1937". Libcom.org. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
- Rumyantsev, Vyacheslav (January 20, 2000). "Барон Арон Давидович, Канторович". Hrono.ru (in Russian). Retrieved November 21, 2022.